Larvotto Resources’ initial flotation testwork on tailings storage facility 1 at the Hillgrove antimony-gold project in New South Wales reports 80–95% antimony and 40–75% gold recoveries from about 1.4 million tonnes of legacy tailings. The material, deposited over ~20 years from an antimony-focused plant, also carries significant gold and tungsten, with earlier work showing 90% tungsten recovery and a 16-fold grade upgrade into a saleable concentrate. Larvotto plans to run the same conventional flotation circuit in its upgraded plant from August 2026, coupling metal recovery with rehabilitation of a facility beside a 500-metre gorge.

Volta Metals’ Springer rare earths project, 70 km east of Sudbury with road access and grid power on site, now hosts 56.6 million indicated tonnes at 0.7% TREO plus 119.5 million inferred tonnes at 0.58% TREO, including a near-surface high-grade core of 11.5 million tonnes at 1.1% TREO. A 1,638-metre drill campaign delivered an 11-fold resource increase over the historical estimate, with more than 5,000 metres planned to support a preliminary economic assessment by end-2026. Fall drilling also intersected 131.9 metres at 81.2 g/t Ga2O3 and 1.4% TREO from 59.6 metres, positioning Springer as a potential primary gallium resource pending recovery testwork.

Hemlo Mining has reported a standout intercept of 16.1 g/t gold over 8.1 m from 99 m depth in South‑Rim hole 7652606 at its Ontario mine, including a 2 m interval at 59.7 g/t, as part of a 130,000 m 2026 drilling campaign. South‑Rim sits 50–150 m from the producing C‑Zone and is interpreted as part of a plunge‑controlled structure extending >1.5 km vertically within a 300 m‑wide east‑west corridor, with five underground and one surface rig currently active. All seven completed South‑Rim holes hit mineralisation, which remains open along strike and down plunge, while step‑out work is shifting east towards the largely untested B‑Zone.